After a sleepless ten hour flight from SFO to Copenhagen and a short flight from Copenhagen to Oslo, it was now time to shake hands with Oslo.

My focus was sketching in Central Oslo. I left my digs in Gunderlokka and walked across the park to catch the 11 tram to the town center.

I got off in front of the National Theatre. One of the buildings on my sketch list was the Radhas. Unfortunately one of the red brick towers was covered in scaffolding so I passed on a sketch and instead found a bear sculpture on a fountain near the Radhas. Perhaps it is a polar bear!

There is lots to sketch in Norway’s capital city. Architecture, both old and modern, fjordscapes, and plenty of public art. And I was even able to sketch a life bird.

On a visit to the Munch Museum, I saw a family of Barnacle geese, two adults and two goslings.

I always love to sketch public art, such as the bear in the featured sketch. I found the statue at the harbor, Dykkar (2013) by Ola Enstad. So I sketched it from behind as I was taking the very of the diver looking out to line of ships and the fjord of Oslo.